The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

ThEAR DOCTOR, what do you. advise ? 1 7 advise Alfred Mellon's Concerts, afterwards to EVANS', Covent-garden, hear some charming singing, order one ot their capital chops and magnificent potatoes, and that Is the best advice I can give you. TZINAHAN'S 1.1. WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i 3 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded oKinahan's LL Whisky." NOTICE IS "HEREBY GIVEN, that the BANK of HINDUSTAN, CHINA, and JAPAN (Limited), has REMOVED front 16, Cornhill, to No. 1, BANK BUILDINGS, Lothbury. By order, R. SWIM: TOMLIN, Secretary. 1, Bauk-bultaing,, August 24, 1864. TH4 ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 29, Lombard-street, London; and Royal Insurance•buildings, LiTerpool. At the Annual Meeting, on'the sth inst., the following' were Nome of the leading results disclosed in the Report to the shareholders. - ------- FIRE BRANCH. The Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum of Bnv, an advance .............. of £341,663 ei ....................... over 1862; an amount of increase exceeding 40,977 that of any pre- year. The Revenue from Fire Premiums has been en hanced in four years by the large sum of £113,353 The Duty paid to Government in 1802 was. £75,993 Ditto ditto, 1863 88,966 Showing an Increase in one year of ....».,.... £12,073 Among the incidents which have tended to the advance `rn ent of the Royal within the last tew months may be reckoned its action with respect to the losses sustained by the explo sion of the Lotty Sleigh, which although mry con Astent with the general tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti mately proved to be no more than what had been done in for mer times by the oldest and most proverbially honourable among its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and public Savour by its unhesitating promptness. As the largest totAl of Revenue and the largest ratio of progression have been attained in the present year, so it happens that the largest Profit which it has ever alien to the Directors to record has likewise on this occasion to be an nounced. The balance of net profit on the year has amounted to .C 83,515 - of which sum .£34, tee only ha s b een appropr i ate to Dividend and Bonus, and the large balan eof £19,441 been carried to Reserve. LIFE BRANCH. The progress of the Life Branch, as shown by the New Business transacted in the last year, is most promising, and the advances made, year by year, in the amount of New In surances effected, show clearly the estimation in which the Company is held. The following* is a statement for the last Eve years Net Sum Assured on New Policies after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums. 1859 .£434,470 11 10 ... £13,086 0 5 1860 1841 1862 1863 . 75 2 ,5 46 18 10 This rapid growth, amounting to 73 per cent. on the Sum Assured, and upwards of 80 per cent, on the Premium re ceived in the course of five years, may justly be considered as larger than any which could have been reasonably exnected. The first half of the current year 1864, however, far outsti ips the ratio of increase indicated by the figures just quoted, as the sum as.,ared for that period of six months only actually exceeds Half-a-Mil ion sterling. The rate of Mortality, likewise, still presents highly favour able features, and augurs well for the result to be shown by the quinquennial investigation, which is to take place when the present year is concluded. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1864. A -RMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat ofn e, Aldershot, Ist September, 1861. TENDERS will be recei ve d at this Office until 12 o'clock at noon on WEDNESDAY, the 2Sth instant, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts for the SUPPLY OF FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required for twelve months, from the Ist November, 1864, to the 31st October, 1865, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp and within the command. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by lettqr addressed to the Senior Commissariat Officer, or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'cicek. Tne Tenders muqt be properly filled up, signed, and deli vered at this office (under closed envelope marked on the out side " Tender for Forage "), and no Tender will be noticed unless m Ado on Forms obtained from this office, and delivered before 12 o'clock noon, on Wednesday, the 28th September, 1864. N.13.---The Contractor wi 1 not be required to pay the ne penny per ration hitherto deducted on account of Manure, o as, in future, the Ma.,,ure will be taken by Government. BUSINES SE S.-Mr. ANDREW HIND'S SEPTEMBER LIST, Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c., Gratis. Letters, enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free. OFFICES —CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Open every Evening at Eight with the World of Magic. Grand Fashionable Mat"nee every Satur :ay at Three p .m. Reserved seats (dross and numbered), 3s. ; balcony, 3s • second seats, 2s. ; body of the Hall and upper and lower galleries, ONE SHILLING. PROFESSOR ANDERSON, Great Wizard of Cosmopolitan Monarch of Magi cians, Prestidigitator, Illusionist, Physicist, and Traveller round the World, displaying in every section his peculiar art, has arranged with the committee of the St. James's Hall to give his original entertainment, as performed by him at all the principal theatres in London 1,010 nights. Since Professor Anderson last had the honour of appearing before the London public, he has made his Entertainment Circurnterraneum ; hence its present title— QUSSE X.- FREEHOLD FARM . - M r. ANDREW HIND has for SALE a FARM of 101 acres, within a ring fence, and consisting of 49 acres arable, 36 pasture, and 15 wood, with homestead, gardens, &c. The property is well t . mbered with thriving oak, ash, &c., is Ituate in a fine sporting country, within 33 miles of London, surrounded by good roads, partly intersected by a trout stream, and commands very extensive and picturesque scenery. A market town and railway station three miles distant. There is also a right of pasturage for 22 head of cattle on the common. Price, including house, buildings, timber, forest right, &e., per acre ; part of the purchase money may remain on mortgage. Further particulars and cards to view may be obtained at the Auction and Estate Agency Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. DEVON. —Mr. ANDREW HIND hqs for SALE a FREEHOLD FARM, containing 200 acres, with farmhouse and buildings. Phis pror erty afforus good shooting, and is cl.l,able of great improvement; will be sold with early possession fbr X 2,000; timber at valuation. Further particulars and cards to view at the City Central Estate Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. FAIR -CURLING FLUID. 248, High Holborn, London. —ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, Is. 6d„ or 20 stamps. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma nently— Ladies' Hair from 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from is. The Dye is sold at 3s. Gd ,or sent free for 54 stamps. It is most easy of nee. ITAIR DESTROYER —248, High Holborn, _IL London. —ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the Barns day.as ordered by post for 51 stamps. SPANISH FLY is th e act i ng ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay on Hair, Id. PINIPLE REMOVER.—AII diseaees of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. 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GO to 20( CAIBRIDGES 30 Tattoo, 50 Borealis. 50 Copenhagen, 50 Gillie. 60 to 2( DOUBLE nil I,WD tv :3,090 to 1, The Oxford and Cant er b ury H a ll C ompany (li m it e d) . CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster -road, London. GRAND OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. PRINCE BLOSSOM; OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE FOREST OF SHADOWS Prince Blossom, Miss Townley. Also, the New and successful Illusion, entitled THE TERCENTENARY; or, a NIUIIT WITH SHAKSPERE. Operatic Selections, Glees, &c., by the whole of the talented Artistes. Comedy by Mr. W. Randall ; Mrs. W. Randall ; and those marvellous Gymnasts, NI esirs. TALLIOTT and RURNELL I (from the Principal Cirque, Madrid). " THE ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN !" "Go, knock, and call ; he'll speak like an Anthropopha. ginian unto then; k noc k, I say. speak like an Anthropopha ginian unto thc knock, I say.' —Shaksperc. Merry Wives of Windsor. 1 act, sc. 5, THE WONDER OF THE DAY Will be Illustrated by Mr. W. Hilton, Director. Mr. F. Jonghmans. 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Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough•street. NEW WORK BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS. In Monthly Parts, unitorm with the Original EdLions of "Pickwick," "David Copperfield," 3c. Now ready, Part V., price is., of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, By CHARLES DICKENS. To be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts. With Illustrations by MARCUS STONE. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. CHEAP EDITION. This day. Price 2s. complete. CROSS OF HONOUR, By Author of "SIR VICTOR'S CHOICE," &c. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. This day, uniform with" Stronghand," price 25., SQMUGGLER CHIEF. A Tale of Life and Adventure. By G. AIMARD. London : Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet-street. In a few days, Companion to "SKITTLES," price 28., INC OGNIT A. Just published, price 2s. each, ANNIE: OR, THE LIFE OF A LADY'S MAID, SKITTLES. I KATE HAMILTON. ANONYMA. LEFT HER HOME. AGNES WILLOUGHBY. FANSY WHITE. WOMEN OF LONDON. Illustrated, 28. 6d. London: George Vickers, Angel-court, Strand. NOTICE.— BER.TIE BRAY. —The Second Edition of this new Novel, by the Author of " Sir Victor's Choice," is now ready. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street, THE LATEST NEW NOVELS. BE RT I E Bit AY. By the Author of " SIR VICTOR'S CIIOICE," &C. D ANGEROUS CONNEXIONS. In Three Vols. THE MAN IN CHAINS. By the Author of " SACKVILLE CHASE," eze. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street MR. GERMAN REED'S New OPERA di CAMERA ENTERTAINMENT.—TO-NIGHT, at Eight o'clock, THE SLEEPING QUEEN, by M. W. Balfe, Esq., the libretto by H. Farnie, Esq., and sustained by Miss D'Este Finlayson, Mr. Whiffin, Mr. Wilkinson, and Miss Poole. To be followed by TOO MANY COOKS, adapted from M. Offenbach by Mr. German Reed, the libretto by C. Furtado, Esq., and in which Miss D'Este Finlayson, Mr. Whiffin, and Mr. J. A. Shaw will appear. ROYAL GAL LERY of ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Every evening (except Sat , rday), at 8. Saturday morning, at 3. Unreserved seats, ls., 25,; stalls, 35.; stall chairs, 55., can now bo secured at the Gallery without fee. THE WIZARD of the NORTH.—TO-NIGHT. —First Appearance f Miss Anderson, the Second Sighted Sybil. Secure your stalls and tickets at Mr Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly. Open raily from Ten till Five. " THE WORLD OF MAGIC." THE WORLD OF MAGIC. Professor Anderson begs to state that however great his own experience may have been in gaining knowledge of his art, that he has not been alone. lie has been accompanied by his daughter, who has encountered all the vicissitudes of travel in every section of the °lobe, and will have the honour of making her first appearance in London in connection with her father in the Word of Magic. MISS ANDERSON, the Modern Mnemosyne and Retro- Reminisrent Ortho graphist, in her m .rvellous performance of "Second SiLdit," as invented and performed by her only. The Magic of Twenty Years ago, and the same as performed by Professor Anderson with unbounded success at the Theatre Itoyal, Covent-garden, kc., will be revived in all its original splendour during the season, and the R e p er t o i re w ill a l so con t a i n the Magic of eTery Age and Clime. THE GREAT RIFLE TRICK, to which is called the attention of all Rifle Volunteers. THE EXPOSE OF TABLE-RAPPING, or so-called Spi. itualism. Spiritualists, test your powers, my Table will be Visible and Moveable. Professor Anderson's Soiree Fantastique will be found to contain all the known Sciences app icable to Natural Magia. with the re ources derivable from Chemistry, Dynamics. liy.: drodynamics, Acoustics, Optics, Electricity, Galvanism, Mee: tro-magnetism, &o. The Thaumaturgy of the Ancients, the Mysteries of the Rosicrucians, the Wonders attributed to Cagliostro, and the Marvels of the Magicians of the Orient, will be exemplified at each representation. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME for the ensuing Week will consist of Mesmerism, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics, Pres tidigitation, Chieromancy, Chaldaic Enumeration, The Dead Alive, Hydrodynamics, Pure Natural Magic, Ancient Greek Conjuring, Electricity made into Magic, Magnetism made into Necromancy, and Thaumaturgy. The PSYCHOMANT EEUNI will be on a scale of splendour totally eclipsing all that has ever been done is this Metro polis, and deigned and executed under the personal super intendence of Dykwynkyn, assisted by artists of celebrity. The whole will form en masse superb decoration hitherto =attempted in the Arcane of Magique. The Musical Direction wil , be under the superintend , nce of Mr Hall, the well-known Musical Director of the Princess's Theatre. The Ticket Office will be under the Direction of Mr Austin, at the hall, and which is opened daily from ten t,ll five o'clock. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). THE OXFORD R, OXFORD STREET, W. During this week will be performed, Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE I'ROVATORE, NABUCO, UN BALLO IN MAScHERA, LA FURZA DEL DESTINO, by Verdi ; and THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, by Sir H. 1 ishop. Principal Artistes:—Misses Russell, Tyrr,ll, Walmsley, Fitz-Henry, and Barrie ; Messrs. Marini, Hush, Green, M irce ll o, and Albert. Comedy by UNSWORTH, EUGENE, W. Randall, C. Burton, and Mdlle. Cavaiho, the celebrated Comedienne and Mimic, Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private boxes, Ns. 6d. Gv - i- -- /-- - (_/ (1 , - - 6K46(• , (fd 4,7,„ NEB' 7 - ' -- '' -, Embarkation of the Prince and Pr! I el ~... * * t-\_ ",:.; -:-4'4X' --- A l - Wales for Denmark. 7 .•_. 7.1 .-- ~. •'' , 1 -- -, ,„ 4t-' • 1 '',............ ..., , • - , j oe -, --,..N_ 44111ik‘ f Thk . _ ii "_ ' 4 ---. . \\ ' r e __?. ' ...._ , a--..._.1.- . 4 w ..*' _ . -,,,, ,. . r. ' 713\ i / Afi ei . 'it •,--,,- • '-, , 4 ,: , - - ' '..... • , • • ~.... PR1CE..—....4d. STAMPED:....Sd. both the raw material and of goods are the same as last week. LEICESTER, 3d,—There has been a good deal of activity in the hosiery trade during the past week. All departments of business have been busy, except the glove branch manufsetnrers, being well engaged with orders on hand. In the country districts busi ness is healthy. The wool market is quiet, but prices continue very high. Yarns are very firm, and extreme rates are realised, spinners being fully employed. MANCHESTER, 3d.—The market has been ex ceedingly fist throughout the week, On Tuesday there were some hopes of a reaction consequent on advices of diminished stocks and a considerable rise of prices in India. The near approach, however, of the Presidential Election in America and the uncertainty as to how far the peace party may influence events during the next two months tend to paralyse the strongest nerves. Those who wish to keep up prices, however unfavourable to the Federals have reason to deprecate for the present any success to their opponents which may threaten the chances of Lincoln and stop the war, for an• doubtedly the prospect of such events has a tendency to throw commercial affairs here into a state of chaos which nobody can foresee the end of. Most people seem to think the end of the struggle may be near, and many heartily wish that it may be so ; but it is feared, nevertheless, as fraught with many serious evils, and prudent man are inclined as much as possible to wait and lessen, rather than increase, their risks at the present moment. Buyers are consequently showing unusual timidity, and it is difficult even to get offers of any magnitude. The Indian mails seem to have bronght few orders of an .. imperative character, so that very little business (almost nothing) is doing by shippers to Bombay and Calcutta, while buyers for others markets are doing exceedingly little. Prices are in favour of buyers, but generally speaking, the market retains more firmness than might be expected under the circumstancee. The prince and princess, with the infant prince and suite, left Abergeldie at ten o'clock on Saturday morning and posted to Aboyne, where they found at,special train waiting for them, and started in it shortly after twelve. Aberdeen was passed at 12.58 , and the journey thence to Dundee was calculatod to occupy two hours. The royal suite included th e Earl and Countess Spencer, the Countess de Grey, General Knollys, Major Teesdale, &c. The Lon. don and North-Western Railway Company provided a saloon carriage for their royal highnesses an their journey. NEWCASTLE- 01`TTYNE, 3d.—The high rate of in. tercet seems to be affecting the trade of the north eastern counties somewhat, and business has been quieter this week. The freight market is decidedly weaker in all its branches, and at present there is a tolerably ample supply of tonnage in the ports, The business done in the iron market at Middlesborough The royal party were expected to arrive in Duna dee about three o'clock, and long before that hour the streets were crowded with the teeming popu lation of the town, and with thousands of persons who had been brought by excursion trains from the neighbouring towns and villages. At half-past two o'clock a rumour was circulated through the crowd that the Royal party would embark at Broughty Ferry, about four miles down the Firth of Tay from Dundee. On inquiry the report turned out to be only too true, at least so far as regarded the inten tions of the Royal party themselves. Several tel a. grams were received at the platform of the Scott'.sh North-Eastern Railway Station, stating that it was fully intended to embark at Broughty Ferry, and, as if to corroborate the statement, the Royal yacht Osborne was seen to sail down the Firth and anchor close to the pier at Broughty Ferry. At this critical. moment the magistrates of Dundee, alarmed at the evident misunderstanding, sent off the senior bailie (Mr Owen) and Mr Kerr, the town clerk, to meet the Prince of Wales at the Ferry, and to state that the whole public of Dundee were in the streetslinsiously waiting to see the royal pair, and that the disap pointment to them would be of a very serious kind should the expected visit not be paid. The muni.a cipal deputation found that it was from an idea th at the tide would be lost by the delay that the inte,n. tion of coming to Dundee had been altered. rale commander of the royal yacht, who was at Broughty to receive the royal party, was consulted aboal the matter, and after making a computation respecting the tide, he assured the Prince that the embarluttion could take place from Dundee without any risk of the kind anticipated. The order was then given to go on to Dundee, and the train arrived there at 20 minutes past three o'clock. A further detention of 10 minuted then took place, for the carriages of the Earl of Camperdown had, according to the sudderi instructions received an hour before, gone off to Broughty, and while the train was coming up they were rushing up the road at full speed, while the royal yacht Osborne was again making her passage up the Firth. At half-past three everything was ready, and, preceded by the carriages of the town council, the Prince and Princess, who were received with a tremendous cheer, both as they entered and left the station, rode through the surging mass, whose ardour could not be abated, for, notwithe standing barriers, special constables, and police, a wave of people followed the Earl of Campers down's carriage, in which the Prince and princess were seated, and at the, wheels of which his lord ship walked, struggling at every moment with the impetuous crowd. An extraordinary spectacle was presented in Dock-street.k Not only was the area crowded to excess, but the windows and housetops on the one side, and the bulwarks, rig ging, and masts on the other, were literally alive with human beings. There were no barriers, unfor• tunately, in the other streets except at the turn ing points; and though the people, as a general rule, kept their places remarkably well, a few of the more ardent were always breaking through the line, and though the interruptions were of a good• natured kind, yet at some points were of rather an alarming character, and but for the most strenuous exertions of the Earl of Camperdown and other gentlemen to check the foremost of the crowd the passage would speedily have been blocked up. Nothing could exceed the heartiness of the recep tion of the prince and princess, who, being in an open carriage, were in the view of everybody, and they very graciously acknowledged the salutations of the crowd. At the corners of the streets, as the carriage of the royal party came in view, the cheer ing was most exuberant, and thousands of hats and handkerchiefs were waved from the windows and above the heads of the populace. The crowds in the streets were chiefly of the working classes, and many of them had just been set free from their labours, with the smoke and dust of the factories still upon their faces. The drive through the town occupied a quarter of an hour, and the quay wag reached at a quarter to four. At this quay, in the centre of the docks, at which Queen Victoria lauded in September, 1844, on her second visit to Scotland, and at the head of which stands the triumphal arch commemorative of the Royal visit, the volunteers of the local battalion. were drawn up, and the accesses to it were strictly' guarded. The royal carriage only was admitted, and the departure took place from a floating jetty. A large party was admitted to witness the royal departure, including the Earl of Camperdown, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Lucie, Sir John Ogilvy, Si r David Ross (Lord Provost of Perth), Sir David Baxter, Mr. Sheriff Heriott, and the provost, ma. giatrates, Ez.c. Before the arrival of the royal party a good deal of rain had fallen, but the weather was quite fine during their progrsse through the town. At the embarkation, however, a heavy shower fell and continued for above an hour. Owing to the change in the araangements, the prince and princess were detained at the ferry for a quarter of an hour waiting the arrival of the royal barge. The crowds on the quays and on the shipping had an excellent view of the prince and princess; and, as they era• barked in the barge, the cheers of the multitude, mingled with the loyal strains of the volunteer band, t;.tve them a hearty and hop,fal goodbye. The hirge then Mood out in the river, and reached the Osborne about a quarter past four, the arrival on board beg ing intimated by an artillery salute from a battery near the docks. About half-past four the infant prince and his nurses embarked in another barge amid the cheers of the multitude, the band of the volunteers playing the National Anthem. A large number of steamers, with crowds on board, sailed down the Firth after the royal squadron, and con. voyed them to the mouth of the Tay. Darkness closed in when the royal vessels were last seen on their way across the North Sea. this week is reported as limited. Prices there have a hardening tendency, however. The demand for iron to be used in local consumption and for exporta tion is very good. It is stated that the eZtensive iron works of Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan, at Middlesborough, Easton, Shildon, and Witton Park will become the property of a limited liability com pany in January. The whole of the capital required has been subscribed, almost exclusively at Manches ter. Several high class iron ships have been launched in the northeastern ports this week. The Dalmatia, of over 1,390 tons, and an iron screw steamer of 1,415 tons, were launched, the first from the building yard of Messrs Denton, Gray, and Co., the second from the yard of Messrs Pile, Spencer, and Co., of Hartlepool, on Thursday ; and this afternoon Messrs Palmer Brothers, of Jarrow, launched a magnificent steamship, the Ontario, of over 3,000 tons, the largest iron ship built on the Tyne, and intended for the National Company of Liverpool. Refusing . to Attend Church. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. The Marquis Townshend presents his compli ments to the Editor, and begs to enclose copy of a correspondence which he has had with the Home office on the subject of the most oppressive and unjust sentence psssed upon Isaac Watson by the magistrates at Duffield for refusing to attend church on Sunday. 6, Grosvenor-place, Sept. 4, 1864. 6, Grosvenor-place, July 23, 1864. Sir,—l beg to draw your attention to the following statement extracted from the Tiaes of the 19th inst. : " Isaac Watson, servant with Mrs Harrison, Duffield \Vold, was summoned before the Rev G. T. Clare, the Rev 11. Foord, and Mr J. Grimeton, and charged by George Lyons, Mrs Harrison's manager, with refusing to attend church on Sunday, being requested by his mistress to do so. The defendant was ordered to attend some place of worship and to pay expenses." I shall be obliged it you will causo the correctness of this statement to be inquired into, and if you will inform me, should it prove correct, under what act of Parliament the the magistrate's sentence has been pronounced.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, TOWNSIIEND. Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart,, G.C.8., M.P., &c. Whitehall, Ang. 27, 1864. My Lord,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter calling attention to the case of Isaac Watson, lately convicted by the magis trates at Duffield of refusing to attend a place of worship on Sunday, and I am to acquaint to your lordship that it ap pears by a report from the magistrates that the defendant was convicted under the 4th Geo.IV., cap. 34, for disobey ing the orders of his employer, to whom he had hired him self for a year, and who desired him to attend a place of worship once every Sunday.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient humble servant, H. WADDINGTON. The Marquis Townshond. KS PAPS R ) --•:'.'"'-' 4.,fi*, vz-- : , AV S V DUNDEE, Saturday ii 77 `,' fy - ,c, i...' ---- On Saturday afternoon the Prince and , Is s ,-,--.-- - i) of Wales met with almost enthusiastic rezeptiou a S from the inhabitants of Dundee on the of icasion of tha embarkation of their royal highness's s for Den mark. For some days previously great excitement prevailed in the town in anticipation of the visit of the prince and princess, and the anti:4T first of loyal feeling and enthusiasm on Saturday all the part of the people has certainly been unequak led since the visit of her Mejesty to Dundee in Se Ttember 1844 —exactly 20 years ago. The corporation of Dundee nat txrally wished that the demonstration should be a public one, and that the inhabitants should have an oppor , tunity of seeing the prince and princess ; but in the official intimation of the embarkation re• ccived by the provost, the desire of the prince, as conveyed by Sir Charles Wood, was to the effect that there should bo no public de. monstration of any kind, but that everything should be carried out in the quietest and most private manner possible. However, at a meeting of the Harbour Trustees on Friday, held for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements, the Earl of Camperdown stated that his son, Lord Duncan, had been instructed by the prince to in• form him that hie royal highness would place himself at the disposal of the magistrates for a short time. It was accordingly agreed, in order that the p u bli c might have a good opportunity of seeing the prirw e and princess, that a procession should be form e d from the railway station, along Dock-street, up Castle-street, to High-street, and Nethergate, and down Union-street, to the Mid Quay— a distance of about a mile and a half. The ruagis. traces issued a proclamation informing the inha bitants that ample opportunity would be afforded to all to see their royal highnesses, and urging the citizens to show the Queen, by their orderly con duct, how they loved her and her children, and to show the noble Danes how their royal daughter was valued. 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Though the military situation is anything but hopeful, and the financial situation is that of a gloom rapidly deepening into darkness, the political situation is so much more important than either as to almost entirely engross the attention of the pub lie. It is not whether Grant will take Richmond. Sherman Atlanta, or Farragut Mobile, that people are now asking, but, who will be nominated for the Presidency at.Claicago on Monday next. Mr Fessen den's popular loon is a proved failure ; but the ques tion of finance, and ninety-nine people of a hundred are far less interested in knowing what Mr Fessen• den will do, than in speculating upon what is likely to be done with the currency when Mr Fessenden and his colleagues shall be voted out of office. The attitude of parties upon the question of an armistice and a Convention of the States is so clearly defined that no military success achieved between this time and the 29th can have much effect upon the issue. Were Grant to capture Richmond, which nobody believes possible, it would not weaken the hands of the majority to be represented at Chicago which has resolved to try whether compromise and con ciliation are not more likely to restore the Union than fire and sword, Were Sherman to take At• lanta, which he has but slender chance of doing, it would give Mr Lincoln and his party no stronger hold upon the popular confidence than they possess to-day, and would not modify the opinion of the two !great sections of the Democracy, that the time has come for friendly debate on the recon• struction of the commonwealth. The Northern people have not lost their love for the Union. They have simply their faith in the war as a means of restoring it. For this reason they are in favour of an armistice and a subsequent Convention, be• lieving, as Mr Lincoln himself is reported to have said, that such a cessation of the strife could not possibly be productive of evil to the Federal cause, but would certainly be productive of good even if the good were of no greater account than the exhibition to the Powers of Europe of a desire on the part of the Northern people to listen to rea son, and to withdraw their quarrel from the bloody arbitrament of battle. It will doubtless be asked in Europe whether the Southern States, though gladly and for obvious tea• sons consenting to an armistice, would consent to send delegates to the proposed Convention. I believe I am justified in stating, as the conviction left upon my mind after repeated conversations on that sub ject with the diplomatists who have taken up their abode on the Canadian side of the Falls of Niagara, gentlemen who claim to possess the entire confidence of the Confederate Government, and to represent its views and wishes in this, and other respects,—that every Southern State would do so on the following terms :—First, that the Federal Government should consider Virginia as one State and not as two, in• asmnch as the creation of the State of Western Virginia without the consent of all Virginia was illegal and unconstitutional—second, that in any State partially occupied by the Federal armies or menaced by Federal navies, such as Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, the Federal sot. diers should possess no vote, and that the utmost freedom of election of delegates should be guaran. teed to all bona fide citizens; and thirdly, that in such border States as Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri, where there is so strong a sympathy for the Southern cause, that not even the most brutal of military despotisms can repress it, the Federal Government will re-establish civil and suspend martial law, and allow the delegates to be elected by the ordinary action of the people. These condi tions cannot be considered unreasonable. They are founded alike upon the principies of the Fede ral and the Confederate constitutions, and seem to be inherent in any truly Republican form of Government. If conceded they would give the South the representation of 15 of the 34 States that once comprised the Union :—namely, Texas (1), Louisiana (2), Arkansas (3), Mis souri (4), Mississippi (5), Alabama (6), Georgia (7), Florida (8), Tennessee (9), Kentucky (10), South Carolina (11), North Carolina (12), Virginia (13), Delaware (14), and Maryland (15). Were the North united in purpose and rent by no political disaen- sions, it would, under this arrangement, be able to elect a clear majority of the Convention ; but as it is almost certain that Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, if not New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, would, for social and commercial as well as political reasons, cast their votes with the South rather than break off negotiations and renew a hopeless as well as sanguinary struggle, it may be a nticipated, if the Convention shall ever meet, that the South will hold the stronger hand, and play the winning game in conference as in war. If New England and the sparsely peopled States of the Far West should under such circumstances prove recalcitrant and rebelli ous, the Southern and Middle States would be quite content to permit their peaceable s ecession, and to recognise their independence as a separate common wealth. They would not mete out to the Puritans the measure that Puritanism has meted to the South, but would rather be rid of them than consent to be any longer encumbered with their advice, their assistance, their interference, or their partnership. But though Mr Lincoln, Mr Seward, and other influential members of the party in power look favourable rather than otherwise on the proposal of an armistice, and would cheerfully adopt it if by that means they could take the wind out of the sails of the Democracy at Chicago, and defeat General M'Clellan, Mr Dean Richmond, or whomsoever may be the nominee on the 29th, the rank and file of Republicanism and Aboli tionism mistrust and denounce the project. They foresee that a general convention, if it restored the Union, could only do so by yielding to the South on the question of slavery. For such a result they are not prepared. They love the Union much, but they hate slavery more, and are willing to sacrifice the Union, rather than fail in securing the emancipation of the whole negro race on this conti nent. They believe in the superior strength and determination of the North and in the certain col lapse of the South, and prefer the extermination of every slaveholder, male and female, and of every slaveholder's family netween Texas and Delaware, to negotiation on any other basis than that so suc cinctly laid down in Mr Lincoln's letter to "whom it may concern." A clergyman, dating his letter from Philadelphia, breaks ground in this sense in the columns of the T ribune, and though asserting himself to be " a minister of the Gospel of peace," declares against an armistice, against a convention, against the making of any terms, except those of emancipation and unconditional surrender, and in favour of war to the extremity of extermination against what he calls the " infernal rebels." Un. happily, there are too many in America who dese crate the pulpit by language and sentiments like this to allow it to be believed that this fiery fanatic stands alone in his wrath. The bishops, archbishops, and leading clergy of the Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches have in large numbers signed a petition to the President in favour of an armistice, but the Calvinistic, Independent, Evangelical, Unie tarian, Puritan, Universalist, and other Churches and sects hold savagely aloof. Their pastors and ministers sound the war trumpet, and raise the war whoop was fiercely as if they were the abori ginal red men of the Wilderness, and had never heard a word of that blessed Gospel of good-will of which they profess to be both the disciples and the preachers. The secular wing of the ultra-Republicans and Abolitionists is as impracticable as the clerical, and opposes a convention, without which an armistice would be a non sequitur, on the ground that the "rebels" could not by the terms of the Constitu tion, be allowed to sit in Convention, unless they first of all took an oath to support the said Con stiution, or, "in other words," says the meta physical Evening Post, " before a convention could be legitimately constituted the rebels must put themselves in a position which would vacate entirely the need of any such body." But the Post perverts the whole case in its anxiety for continued war. The Constitution of the United States provides for its own amendment, and prescribes the proceed ings to be adopted to that end ; but does not provide for a separation of the sovereign States, because its farmers did net foresee—or were not called upon to admit the possibility of such a forcible disruption of their own voluntary compact as that which they wrought successfully against their involuntary or implied contract with the mother country. The spirit of the Constitution is c learly in favour of a conve ntion to be held before diff e rences of opinion and antagonism of interest have produced violence and bloodshed, and with the view of preventing d them by mutual and wise concessi bloo on, has But h a f t s sh er th ed e violence has been done and the jurist is right in his the letter of the Constitution no longer applies; and to this extent the Republican interpretation of the document. The truth is that the Constitution, if not waste paper, is at this mo ment a practical nullity. The South has repudiated and it for one which it considers an improvement; the North, under Mr. Lincoln's management, ha s 8e dae emldiev niionts gre ality which it w as until Mr. executive, e c su bstitute. o tive and Even sConstitution andw Lincoln ePrr: became h dead letter which he and adverse circumstances have made it, it would not be under t he civil but under the war power that Ft, convent i on not foreshad owe d in that document could be summoned by M r . Jef ferson Davis and Mr. Lincoln in the States which severally recognise their authority. The same powers that can agree to an armistice can agree to call a convention, for were it otherwise the war could only end in the exhaustion of one or both of the belligerents, or by the forcible intervention of foreign Powers—injured in their interest and scan. dalised in t h e ir Christianity by RN aggravated con tinuance. and the d oc t r i n aire phlillio:ongetrsheofPthtlirsitcaitnyealnerdgnY:3w England may look w ith disfavour o n the armistice/ a very different feeling perva des the working al assase The labour ing multitude livin g u p on wages have been the grea test sufferers b y the war—and would lo athe it for the hardships which it has inflicted upon them, even it were not accompanied by the terrors of the conscription. As an armistice Would postpone the draught for six months, if it did not render it defi nitively unnecessary, they are Unanimous in its fa vour—so unanimous and 80 earnest that wei: the project to be aband o ned in consequence of a difli culty or objection arising on the part either of the South or the North, its enforcement in this city, and perhaps elsewhere, would be far more perilous to the public peace than if the idea had never been promulgated. More than the want of money, which can be supplied by the Treasury printing press at-- Washington—of co urse under the usual penalities of depreciation of the currency, and the dread of bankruptcy and repudiation —it is the want of men that will compel the Federal Government to take heed lest its present haughty spirit should not go before destruction. The fighting material of the American people is nearly exhausted, and since the resultless and sickening butchering of Gen. Grant, who, in the words of the New York Daily News, has provided either a cripple or !L corpse for half the homes of the North, the little enthusiasm that previously existed has cooled down to a vOry temperate, if not to a freezing point. Federal regents in Germany are offering as much as 1,000 dollars bounty to able bodied recruits, and are carrying on under the thin disguise of engaging labourers for railways in the West, a similar system in Ireland. These and the veterans whose terms of service has expired are the sole sources on which the Government can rely for so many as 50,000 men. Even tho jour nals which vehemently support the Administration, and which most persistently refuse to see the dark side of things, are compelled to admit that the hearts of the people, if not estranged from the war, ate estranged from taking any part in it. In alluding to an advertisement calling upon the students of Yale College residing in this city to assemble in public meeting to devise and adopt a method of mutual insnranoß against the draught, the New UorT litneF COL e155e6 and deplores that such is the case. " Everywhere," it says, " there is a disposi tion to get clear of the duty. How to escape the draught is the leading question of the day. All devices are resorted to. The gutters are dragged for substitutes. Traps are set in Europe. Negro slaves, who owe the Republic nothing but curses, are driven to the rescue. Nowhere is there to be found a straightforward, personal response to pa triotic obligation. The Republic calls upon her sons to defend her. Unless she has that defence her destruction is inevitable." This is excellent scolding and irrefutable truth ; but it will not cause anybody else but an Irish or German mercenary, to shoulder the musket. It is the great, but not the only, difficulty which besets the Government, and places it between the two fires of defeat by the Southern armies, or a new civil war within its own limits, in the attempt to enforce by violence a mea sure utterly odious to all its citizens, whether native or naturalised; and which has no attractions except to the most needy and reckless of the European immigration. The very negroes have resolved to steer clear of hostilities and to volunteer no more. " At first," says one of them, named Welles Brown, in an address to his brethren at Boston, "I desired that coloured men should go to this war, to convince this God-forsaken nation that black men were as brave as white men ; but our people have been so cheated, robbed, deceived, and outraged that I can not urge then to go. We have an imbecile Admi nistration, and the most imbecile management it is possible to concieve." If Sambo is to fail him Mr Lincoln is badly off indeed, and ought to be grateful to the Chicago Convention if it give him so admi rable a chance of respite as the armistice will afford. STATE OF TRADE. BARNSLEY, Sept. 3.—The coal trade throughout the whole of South Yorkshire for the seven days ending this day has been unusually brisk, and from the reports which come to hand from other parts ;he same activity characterises the trade elsewhere. The demand for the metropolitan dealers, who just now are making large inquiries for gas and Silk. stone coals, is quite as good as last week, and rather _._. better than is usual at this period of the year. The provinces are just now taking a good deal, which is a pretty fair indication of the steady progress of trade. Since the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin- - • colnshire Railway have worked the Sonth York. shire rather more coal has found its way into Lan. cashire ; and this, added to a rapidly increasing in quiry for Hull, makes trade brisk. On one day during the present week more coal was shipped at Keadby for Hull than at any other time since the South Yorkshire extended its line to that port. To Grimsby there is also a good demand. BIRMINGHAM, 3d.—The trade of this town con■ tinue3 remarkably good for the time of year; the orders through the factories are much beyond the average, and in the foreign department business is active, the bulk of the orders in on that account being for South America, the West Indies, and Canada, but there is also a steady trade to Spain and to some of the Eastern markets. In all the principal branches manufacturers are well engaged ; there is a steady demand for materiel ; the metal-rollers, edge tool makers, ironaw ire drawers, hollow-ware manufacturers, and tinplate workers have amply sufficient orders to keep their establishments in full operation ; and it is only in very few instances that goods are being made up for stock. The gasfitters, and lamp and chandelier makers are gradually getting busy. BRADFORD, 31—Although a more cheerful tone has pervaded the market during the week, the busi ness done has been exceedingly limited. Buyers merely supplied their actual neeetsiries, and prices were, if anything, rather easier. On the whole, however, staples were firm, and showed a disposi tion to retain their stocks rather than make any considerable concession in price. Prices being some what unsettled, the approaching Bristol fair is looked forward to as promising to establish them. There was considerably less doing in worsted yarns and pieces. Spinners whose contracts are expiring were more dispesed to meet customers. The few export buyers who appeared in the market could operate more advantageously, especially in most single yarns, which were much easier to buy than two-folds and genappe, though these alsD had a slight softening tendency. Manufacturers, espe cially of plain goods, were curtailing production by stopping machinery. With the single excep tion of alpaca lustres, which were in good demand all classes of goods were exceedingly sluggish and easier to buy. DUNDEE, 2d.—Throughout the week very little business has been done in any department in conse quence of the annual holidays. To-day there was a fair attendance at market, end a slightly improved feeling was visible. Flax continues very difficult to sell, excepting at lower prices, and as sellers are unwilling to make the concession wanted, little has been sold. Fine tow and codilla are in mode rate request, and bring full prices, but common will not move. Jute is very inactive and scarcely a transaction is reported. To sell lower prices must be taken. The demand for yarns was rather better than last week, all qualities being quite as firm as they then were, and some sizes of jute rather in favour of sellers. Orders for linens still come for ward t o a full extent, and manufacturers are all busily employed. There was rather more inquiry for goods adapted for the American market to-day and some pretty extensive transactions took place in them, but at low prices. HALIFAX, 3d.—The demand for piece goods has been rather slack this week, both the home trade and the export houses operating cautiously. The continued tightness of the money market keeps operations rather backward, and as a good deal of goods for the fall of the year has been purchased, and has not yet got into the hands of the retail dealers, the market ruled fiat. With a change of the season an improvement in the demand may be expeeted, and in the meantime manufacturers are well employed. The carpet and damask trades are quiet but steady. The yarn spinners are mostly local wool :! y we ll employed, and prices are steady . Thou g h the Ede has not been ve r y animated durin g the week, prices are without material alteration. HUDDERSFIELD, :;,2 : —The woollen trade , in t he wag ;houses as well as in the p ublic market, has been ratiier sluggish this wren. The attendance local buyers from the metropolis has bear small, 1 att uentl endance there been a full average of the reink from other places. Th e stocks will eon. q " improve in quantity, and more goods of a sCasnne able character will be forthcoming, so that po chasers, for the next few markets at least, will p ro bably not have to complain, as some of them lately have done, that they could not meet with what they require, Good black doeskins and the middle and best qualities of fancy trouserings command W re ady sale, and heavy coat in g s of good quality and neat pattern are not di ffi cult ools to di keep spose up and of. Prices generally are very firm. local brokers are not overstocked. The purchases at the late sales of colonial wools in London are going into consumption. The quality and condition e :e well spoken of. 3D.—There has been a little im p rovement i n LtEhCe:o?o.llen cloth trade here during the week, m ore goods ha\ -in g been purchased both by the ex• se in the home trade. To - day, the cloth halls were scarcely p h o o r w t e houses ver,th e and m markets these itt so brisk as might be swotted. The attendance el buyers was not large, and operations were slow. The aspect of the money market and the various statements as to the probability of some material change being made in the affairs of America corn. bine to keep speculations in the cloth trade in abeyance. The principal fabrics sold to•day were tweeds, and those of good make sold readily at the full quotations of the past month. There was a m i sce ll ane ous demand for heavy goods and for plain cloths, but the aggregate bulk sold was below an average. The wool mark e t is steady, and pricee A Persecuted Author. Alexandre Dumas addressed the following °ham• teristic letter to the Emperor on the subject of his piece recently produced in Paris, and called the " Mohicans of Paris." The " Mohicans" had been stopped by the censorship, and Dumas wrote : Sire,—la 1836, and even to-day, there were three men at the head of French literature, Victor Hugo, Lamartine, and myself. Victor Hugo is proscribed. Lamartine is mined. I cannot be exiled like vic tor Hugo, as neither b y word, theyt e ha a v pub a volu writing, nor act, have I g iven the authorities an y hold over not me. But I can be r uined like Lamartine, and lam bein g ruined. I know no t what has excited the censorshi p a gain st tu f or me to appreciate their litera r y mer it s . T rans l a t e d i n t o all tongues them. Although the least worthy of the three, in the five e.I have written ned gone lishsed far a 1,200 s volumes. steam could . It is carry parts of the world I have become the most popular, because one is a thinker, the other a dreamer, whilst I write for all suis ,moi, un vulyarisateur). Of these 1,200 volumes there is not one but could be given to any workman of the Faubourg St. Antoine, the most republican, or to any young girl of the Faubourg St. Germain, the most modest of our Faubourgs. Well, sire, in the eyes of the censure lam the most impure man alive. Within 12 years the censure has successively stopped " Isaac La queden,"sold 80,500 francs ; the " Tour de Nesle," after 800 representations, stopped for seven years. "Angelo" stopped after 300 representations for six years ; " Antony" also for six years, after 350 representations. "Le Jeunesse de Louis XIV.", not played though received by the French Theatre. To-day the censure stops the " Mohicans of Paris," which was to have been played on Saturday. It wil probably, on some pretext or another, forbid "Olympia of Cleves" and " Balsamo," which plays I am writing now. I do not complain any more for the "Mohicans" than for my other dramas. I would observe to your Majesty that d ur jng the three years of the Restoration of Charles X., during the 18 years' reign of Louis Philippe, 1 never had a piece either suspended or arrested, and I add, for your Ma jesty alone, tiot it appears to me unjust to make a single dramatic author iOse more than half a million when so many men, who do not deserve the name, are encouraged and supported. I appeal them for the first, and probably for the last time, to the prince whose hand I had the honour to press at Areneberg, at 11am, and at the Elysee, and who finding me a devoted proselyte when he was on the road to exile and the road to prison has never found me a solicitor when on that of empire. A. DUMAS. 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